“I can eat glass, it does not hurt me” was a phrase created in the mid-1990s, translated into over 150 languages, as an absurd joke to convince locals you were fluent in their language (and a little insane). It was one of the first internet memes.

I purchased some IBM punched cards from 1978 off an online reseller, and used the IBM 29 Card Punch reference manual to translate the phrase. I had to do this manually with inkjet printing and cutting out each square. (turns out card punch machines are super hard to come by nowadays??? Who would’ve thought.)

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